I am sure they had the air jump sometimes last year as well?

I think there are.
For all the reasons people don't like her, I'll give her one good thing...she's competitive and is taking the series seriously as a competition.
That right now is probably the most important trait needed in anybody who comes into this show.

I couldn't hear anything because my own booing was drowning out all other noise.

No, joking aside I have no problem with Heather Mills in this. She may not be my favourite person but as far as this show goes compared to others in there I think she's got the right attitude, and she is quite capable.

I think it will serve them will to be extra nice and give Beth pleasant mentions on each show from now on until the end of the series.
They're not that stupid are they? They seem to be playing that one well.

The show seems to like him I noticed. Davina seems to have reverted back to her Big Brother days by showing her bias by putting words into out mouths and telling us all that 'We love Arg'.
I don't really mind him as a person but I hate TV shows trying to tell me what I'm thinking. Davina is one of the very worst for this. She assumes that what she thinks is the same as what all the viewers think.

I noticed that on last night's show it took 25 minutes from the start until we actually got to the action.
25 minutes is actually the entire length of most TV programmes. Here we got 25 minutes of waffle at the bar right at the start.

Then as your eyes move up and you look at him from the neck up you see the face of a grinning chimp faced f**k and you recognise who it really is.

Probably because Rugby is often seen as a middle class sport and many rugby players are quite well spoken with nicer accents?

If there is a next series of The Jump they may as well re-title it and call it "You might know me best for...."
Because that's how just about all these celebrities introduce themselves with their intro VTs.
A celebrity who we all know wouldn't have to explain who they are to us, we'd just know.
It's like bad impressionists who have to tell us who they're doing an impression of just before they do it.

The way things are going it looks like it's only going to get used in the final.
3 shows out of 6 so far and we haven't seen it being used. In the previous 2 series did they leave it for so long until the jump was used?
And even if it does get used in the final I can see them saying that the weather is too bad to perform it live so we'll show you some jumps that we prepared earlier.

It makes you wonder how they manage to cope with the Winter Olympics what with the inconvenience of snow and ice.

In winter sports I'd have thought that 'hot and sunny' would be 'Adverse weather conditions'.

The main jump is looking less and less likely isn't it?
Which is a swindle because the jump is the main draw and what the title of the programme is named after.

If that weather was too bad for the air jump then what are the chances that the weather will ever be right for the main jump?

Actually looking at how things are laid out, where's the little jump? In the previous two series they had a little jump and the main jump.
Weren't celebrities using the little jump right up until the final day in the previous series?

What's going on? Why is no explanation provided as to why even a little jump isn't being used?

Arg proving that Weebles wobble and they do in fact fall down, contrary to popular belief.

Apparently there's a story that he met one of the Eastenders producers at some do or gathering of sorts, and kind of begged them for him to be let back on Eastenders Alan Partridge style. Naturally the producer explicitly stated 'No'.

Really I think they need to start with being more honest to viewers instead of feeding us this disingenuous crap about what's going on.
From there they can build on that.

Only they can't if it doesn't come back again anyway.

That may be a difficult pill to swallow, but is probably true with this show.
It appears that the message being sent out is that you don't have to worry about health and safety with Winter sports. Just mess about and have a laugh, and you'll be fine.
And strangely enough it actually seems to be the case.

I noticed when watching that Joe Swash occasionally held his shoulder and grimaced inbetween all his tomfoolery and when Davina wasn't talking to him.
Then I noticed when he was actually doing the air jump he had his right arm slightly tucked into his body.
It looked very awkward indeed.

If he's carrying on with training and events will that allow his shoulder to get better or risk making it worse.

In fact did Davina even mention that Joe had picked up a shoulder injury? I don't recall her mentioning that, but I apologise in advance if I missed it.

I'm thinking how can he carry on with things like The Moguls where he's very likely to fall when training for it? Because obviously if he falls, especially on his right hand side, he's going to need to stick his arm out to break his fall. After all that's partly what arms are for.

You're right. I do remember it making an appearance. Was it for only one week though?
And was last year the same as the first when the participants had the choice of opting for either the small jump or the big jump?
I'd appreciate it if you or anyone else can jog my memory on that.

I wish Heather had tried a "You'll know me best for..."

The air jump was used a couple of times last year, but they had 3 different height proper ski jumps that were used more than the air jump. The contestants could pick which height jump they used. I don't think any of them ever picked the largest one, but the middle one was used a few times.

Looking at this year's contestants, I can see why they are sticking with the air jump, but it does make the show even more of a farce.

Looks like they removed the Small/Medium/Large jump and replaced with just that very intimidating one.

I've turned this rubbish off.

Last years was a great improvement over the previous year and was really enjoyable. This year it's just dire.

The format is completely wrong with all this weekly nonsense and the snow will have surely melted by the time we get down to any sort of final. With all these "celebs" when is it due to finish ? July ? The nightly format was much MUCH better.

The length of the program is just too much to take. 90 minutes ! Of which 20 minutes are adverts, 69 minutes of inane filling and 1 minute of actual action. Talk about spreading it a bit thin !

Now, about these accidents and injuries. The law of probabilities cannot be ignored. I've skied for many years but it is a fact that the more I ski the more accidents I have and I think the same is true for these "celebs" . The more they train for an event and the more times they try an event the probability of being injured doing it increases. In the old weekly format there would statistically be less injuries due to the LACK of training. Just look at the skeleton, go down the run a couple of times and the chances are, with minimal training, you're going to come out OK. Do it 20 times and the chances are you're not going to be so lucky !

I didn't see last nights episode but have they definitely confirmed the two smaller jumps have gone? We did see the contestants practising on it, it was the smaller jump that Tina was on when she fell. Davina said last week "some have gone off the big jump" which implies smaller jumps exist.

when they pan around only the one jump seems visible
the entire area behind seems a lot smaller.

I will tweet and ask someone if they reply will post

Didn't Louise Hazell use the biggest jump in the final last year? Did a good landing but then the two guys went off the middle jump and went further.